Well, tell us about yourself and why you're running for re-election.

Well, first, I really appreciate you doing this.

It's a great opportunity to inform the voters.

The Democrat process is incredibly important, and we need to make sure that everybody casts an informed ballot.

So, again, my name is William Timmons.

I've lived in the upstate of South Carolina my entire life.

My family's actually been in South Carolina for a couple hundred years, actually.

What do you believe is most on constituents' minds that you can address should you win?

Why do you think he was able to have relationships with all of the, uh, all of those leaders, and like you said, relationships that even the President doesn't have?

So I've been thinking a lot about this, as I've had to talk more and more about it over the last two days, and I think it was because he was so dedicated to public service, so dedicated to his job.

He, he didn't have children to go home to, and when the rest of the Senate goes home, he gets on a plane and goes to Kyiv, or he gets on a plane and goes to Riyadh, or he goes to Tel Aviv, and he invested his time in building those relationships.

And over, uh, decades of public service, it just pays huge dividends.

It pays huge dividends, and he was just a dedicated public servant.

Uh, they're now reporting, um, that he should have gone to, uh, get a medical procedure in the weeks prior, and he was putting it off because he wanted to go to Kyiv.

He was putting it off because he wanted to go on Meet the Press, and he just kept putting it off because he was so dedicated.

What do you think his legacy's going to be?

Talk about the top issues that you're hearing from voters right now.

I think the number one issue is supporting the president.

The president won my district by 30% and he is the leader of the country.

77 million people told him that they wanted to save the American dream and they wanted him to do it.

And so his support of me is huge.

My support of him is why he has supported me.

So that's probably number one in their minds.

I mean, obviously the war has to, I say the war, the war technically is over, but it's not over, right? I mean, so what needs to happen exactly? Your thoughts.

If we continue, Congressman, uh, with gasoline prices being 4, 5, $6 a gallon into the summer, uh, how is that gonna affect the midterms in November?

November?The pitch I have for the American people is very simple.

77 million people said that, uh, the direction of the Biden administration was bad for the country, and they wanted a, a, a new direction.

They gave President Trump a chance.

They will know that they are better off in November than they were two years ago.

We did so much work last year, whether it's re- renegotiating our trade agreements, passing the largest, uh, tax cuts, uh, in, uh, US for decades, um, leading in the global community, uh, stopping...

I, I think he's at eight or nine wars now.

What are you seeing in November? Are we gonna be able to hold onto those seats and maybe even have some gains?

Well, tell us about yourself and why you're running for re-election.

Well, I've been in office for seven and a half years, and I was serving in the state senate before that.

The reason I got involved in politics is because I was a frustrated small business owner.

So going back decades and decades, my family's been in the upstate for almost 100 years, been in South Carolina for close to 300.

And we have a family business.

and I have a very big family, and so I did not wanna go into the family business, and I started a couple of businesses.

I started a CrossFit gym in what is now Unity Park.

What do you believe are the biggest issues facing your constituents?

Do you see a possibility for compromise here? Do you see any good coming of this for taxpayers? Because I think this should have been doged.

Listen, we're discussing extending COVID-era subsidies for a failing healthcare system.

It's absolutely ridiculous.

You cannot throw trillions of dollars after a failed healthcare system.

Obamacare does not work.

So we need to address affordability of healthcare.

And that involves... starting from the ground up.

And now he's talking about you got to be flexible on the Hyde Amendment, which is I mean, you can't be flexible on the Hyde Amendment.

What's it going to take?

Again, I think this is going to be over very soon.

The election on Tuesday is going to give them what they need.

They're going to see what happens in New York City, and they're going to find an off-ramp.

They're going to probably say something about how they have the framework to discuss a solution to this problem.

But again, I agree that we need to address health care, but the answer is not with a gun to the government funding's head.

This is extortion, and they're asking not for billions of dollars, for $1.5 trillion in subsidies for...

Your thoughts on next week's elections and how Republicans are feeling about those, especially in Virginia and in New Jersey.

Cut number six.

You're a rabid progressive, like, a- and do you not think it's a problem that your political leanings, um, uh, make it seem to the American people that, that you're not biased and you're not doing your job? Because you agree that your job is to have journalistic integrity, right?

I do believe that we need to have journalists who represent the full breadth of the American society so that we can report well for all Americans.

W- Well, I, I, I think that you are failing.

I realize you've only been there for a year, but I, I, I just really think that while it is a small portion of your budget, you very much should expect to, uh, restructure your revenue streams, because I, I don't think that NPR is necessarily worth saving.